This tune is from the musical, "Rose-Marie," the big hit of 1924.
With music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and lyrics by Otto
Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, it played in towns across America
until 1929. There were three film versions: a silent with Joan
Crawford, the 1936 Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy version (originally
with a pink tint), and a 1954 CinemaScope stereo version with Ann
Blyth.
Of course the big hits of the show were "Indian Love Call" and "Rose-
Marie", and of interest to most of us, practically all of the roll
manufacturers of the era came out with these two big hits. The tune
in question, "Totem-Tom-Tom," appears in the first act of the musical.
But that's probably more than anyone wanted to know.
Regards,
Tom Steuer.
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